Letters to a Teacher (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802142276)

Sam Pickering has been teaching, guiding, performing, and inspiring for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society. Letters to a Teacher is a welcome reminder that teaching is a joy and an art. In ten graceful yet conversational letters addressed to teachers of all types, Pickering shares compelling, funny, always elucidating anecdotes from a lifetime in the classrooms of school and universities. His priceless, homespun observations touch on topics such as competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth. More than a how-to guide, Letters to a Teacher is an invitation into the hearts and minds of an extraordinary educator and his students, and an irresistible call to reflection for the teacher who knows he or she must be compassionate, optimistic, respectful, firm, and above all dynamic. This is an indispensable guide for teachers and laymen alike.

Author: Sam Pickering
ISBN-10: 0802142273
ISBN-13: 9780802142276
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2005
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.32h x 5.06w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 01/01/2006 pg. 30